Client Partner, Director | Life Sciences
Slalom
United States
USD 161k-284k / year
Posted on Oct 10, 2025
Our Slalom Carolinas team is looking for a Client Partner in the Life Sciences industry to join our organization. This role involves building and maintaining close relationships with a diverse portfolio of clients, understanding their strategies and objectives, and representing Slalom's technical services. The position focuses on setting strategic direction, delivering solutions, leading teams, driving sales, and managing accounts.
Account Leadership
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $161,000 to $284,000, and the targeted base salary range is $200,000 to $225,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
- Please note: This role is not eligible for 100% remote work. Employees must live within a commutable distance of the Carolinas Market and must be willing to be onsite at the client and/or Slalom office when needed.
- 10+ years of managed consulting services industry, with experience growing accounts and delivering on projects.
- 10+ years of managing teams through all lifecycles of a project and delivery excellence.
- Extensive experience in account management and client relationships, with a focus on revenue management and strategic growth.
- Understand our clients’ business needs and challenges within a client setting and have a thoughtful point of view.
- Detailed knowledge, background and experience across industries, understanding their missions and the body of work typical to these organizations
- Understanding of and ability to work with budget cycles and current budget challenges.
- Ability to read and properly interpret a client’s RFP, RFQ/RFO, and RFI, assess whether Slalom is a good fit and recommend/decide if Slalom should respond.
- Cultivates relationships at the Director, Vice President, and C-Suite levels
- Has managed escalations and works proactively at the C-Suite level to prevent surprises and mitigate risk when issues arise.
- Experience in managing a portfolio of $5 to $12.5 million in revenue.
- Collaborate with Sales Executives to create account plans for targeted state and local agencies and departments.
- Identifies opportunities to engage SMEs to assist with or augment project delivery.
- Helps drive thought leadership around improving Slalom’s transformational customer love scores.
Account Leadership
- Business Development: Drives proposals and partners with Pursuit Teams to develop and execute on sales strategy. Will lead the negotiation and closing of opportunities, while managing a portfolio of $5-12.5 million.
- Financial Management: Understands the nuances and differences from running operations. Will bring and use their experience knowing common approaches to working with procurement organizations and the inherent differences in procurement across client sizes and industries.
- Strategy: In close collaboration with local market leaders, align global account and local market strategies.
- Practice Collaboration: Work collaboratively with Slalom practices to define service offerings that meet industry needs, bring those offerings to-market, and deliver capabilities through project work.
- Community and Networking Relations: Promote Slalom in the market by attending / speaking at industry events, panels, etc.
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $161,000 to $284,000, and the targeted base salary range is $200,000 to $225,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.